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Re: Mayo to the Mavs...

I'm not the biggest Mayo fan in the world, but for $4.25M a season we should have been all over that.

Very disappointed in our new FO so far.

How do you know Mayo would have been interested in playing for the Pacers and coming off our bench? For that kind of money I hope and I believe that our FO did the best they could to convince him to join us.

Re: Mayo to the Mavs...

How do you know Mayo would have been interested in playing for the Pacers and coming off our bench? For that kind of money I hope and I believe that our FO did the best they could to convince him to join us.

to be fair, i don't think our FO had a chance because of the timing.
He was waiting for Phoenix, Phoenix was waiting for the Hornets, and we had no time/didn't want to wait.

If we had "real" cap space like the Mavs (as opposed to "temp" space until Hibbert and Hill were officially signed), we might've done much better.
In hindsight, our free agency looks very rushed. We overspent on some pieces, we wasted some assets; it's very anti-Houston.
But to be fair, there are things we don't know. Maybe Hibbert didn't want to delay that much. Maybe we cleared the cap off Dahntay/DC in hopes to land another piece, and it simply didn't work out.

Re: Mayo to the Mavs...

Smith said Mayo turned down one contract this summer that was worth $11 million. He said he also turned down an offer from the Phoenix Suns that was worth between $9 million-$10 million so he could play for the Mavs.

Re: Mayo to the Mavs...

I think more likely it was the Bobcats or some other young team. Or could just be a ploy by his agent saying, "Some team offered him $11 mil and he declined so if he does good this year, the bidding starts there for his next contract." I don't think it will work out that well if that's the truth but you never know.

Didn't think of that. If it was 2 yrs 11mil then yeah I could see us offering him that.